"In this case, the owners happen to be deeply Christian; one wonders
whether the case would have come out differently if a Muslim-run chain
business attempted to impose Sharia law on its employees. As many have
pointed out, Hobby Lobby is the same company that invests in Pfizer and
Teva Pharmaceuticals, makers of abortion inducing-drugs and the morning
after pill. It also buys most of its inventory from China, where forced
abortions are common. The hypocrisy is galling.

"Hobby Lobby is not a church. It’s a business — and a big one at that.
Businesses must and should be required to comply with neutrally crafted
laws of general applicability. Your boss should not have a say over your
healthcare. Once the law starts permitting exceptions based on
'sincerely held religious beliefs' there’s no end to the mischief and
discrimination that will ensue. Indeed, this is the same logic that
certain restaurants and hotels have been trying to deploy to allow
proprietors to refuse service to gay couples.

"While we work to overturn this decision by legislation, people of good
conscious should BOYCOTT any for-profit business, including Hobby Lobby,
which chooses to impose its religious beliefs on its employees. The
only way such companies ever learn to treat people with decency and
tolerance is to hit them where it counts–in their pocketbooks. I won’t
be shopping there, and women everywhere should exercise their right of
protest and refuse to shop there as well." - George Takei, writing on his personal blog.

It’s not just Hobby Lobby. There are one hundred
cases that have been filed for the right to discriminate against women’s
healthcare. NOW calls them the “Dirty 100″.

Here they are in all of their infamy: The following
is a list of plaintiffs in the 100 cases that have been filed in
opposition to the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act, as
provided by the National Organization for Women.

Through the training of trying to be
mindful, one becomes more aware, but to such an extent that it expands
further and further, encompassing all situations and all moments, and
finally to such an extent that trying to be more mindful and being
mindful becomes one identity of just awareness. At which point there is
no longer someone being aware of something. That is what is meant by the
dissolving of the conceptual attitude.

“Anxiety,
unrest and the compulsion to do are symptoms of ambition and desire.
Since one searches for success in the paradigm of the material world,
one wants to accumulate wealth because one believes that success means
having a lot of money. But when the paradigm shifts and one begins to
move towards a spiritual life, success becomes being considered
charitable and making people happy. But how can you make others happy if
you yourself are not happy? One continues to seek out success through a
spiritual life with the same ambition as one sought success in the
material life. Compulsive action is a way of running away from oneself.
We need to understand the root cause of desire, and self-awareness is
what allows for this understanding to occur.”